Bombing of Pajala, the Glossary
The bombing of Pajala was a bombing that took place in Sweden during World War II on February 21, 1940.[1]
Table of Contents
12 relations: Aerial bomb, Crown (currency), Kengis, Lars Levi Laestadius, Molotov bread basket, Murmansk, Norrbotten County, Pajala, Sodankylä, Soviet Union, Sweden, World War II.
- 1940 in Sweden
- Aerial operations and battles of World War II involving the Soviet Union
- Aviation accidents and incidents in 1940
- Military operations directly affecting Sweden during World War II
- Norrbotten County
- Sweden in World War II
Aerial bomb
An aerial bomb is a type of explosive or incendiary weapon intended to travel through the air on a predictable trajectory.
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Crown (currency)
A crown is a unit of currency used in the Czech Republic, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark (including the Faroe Islands and Greenland).
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Kengis
Kengis (Köngäs) is a small rural community in Pajala Municipality in northernmost Sweden, located very near the Finnish border.
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Lars Levi Laestadius
Lars Levi Laestadius (10 January 1800 – 21 February 1861) was a Swedish Sami writer, ecologist, mythologist, and ethnographer as well as a pastor and administrator of the Swedish state Lutheran church in Lapland who founded the Laestadian pietist revival movement to help his largely Sami congregations, who were being ravaged by alcoholism.
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Molotov bread basket
The RRAB-3 ("rotationally dispersing aviation bomb"), nicknamed the Molotov bread basket, was a Soviet-made droppable bomb dispenser that combined a large high-explosive charge with a cluster of incendiary bombs.
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Murmansk
Murmansk (Мурманск; Мурман ланнҍ; Muurman and Murmánska) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.
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Norrbotten County
Norrbotten County (Norrbottens län, Meänkieli/Norrbottenin lääni, Norrbottena leatna) is the northernmost county or län of Sweden.
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Pajala
Pajala is a locality and the seat of Pajala Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 1,958 inhabitants in 2010.
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Sodankylä
Sodankylä (Soađegilli; Suáđigil; Suäʹđjel) is a municipality of Finland.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
1940 in Sweden
- 1940 in Sweden
- Bombing of Pajala
- Bombings of Malmö and Lund
- Inez Magnusson
- Transit of German troops through Finland and Sweden
Aerial operations and battles of World War II involving the Soviet Union
- Aerial warfare during Operation Barbarossa
- Bombing of Pajala
- Operation Frantic
- Operation Kutuzov
- Operation Orator
- Warsaw airlift
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1940
- 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
- 1940 Canberra air disaster
- 1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 crash
- Bombing of Pajala
- Kaleva (airplane)
- Kweilin incident
- List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1940–1942)
- List of accidents and incidents involving the DC-3 in 1940
- Mechelen incident
Military operations directly affecting Sweden during World War II
- Battles of Narvik
- Bombing of Pajala
- Operation Catechism
- Operation Catherine
- Operation Obviate
- Operation Weserübung
- Operation Wilfred
- Plan R 4
Norrbotten County
- Bombing of Pajala
- Kuokkel mining field
- Munka mine
- Norrbotten
- Norrbotten County
- Norrbotten County (Riksdag constituency)
- Norrbottens Museum
- North Sweden European Office
- Rubus Arcticus (grant)
- Ruoutevare mine
- West Air Sweden Flight 294
Sweden in World War II
- 163rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
- Arbetar-Tidningen
- Attentatet i Pålsjö skog
- Bombing of Pajala
- C-byrån
- Det här är en svensk tiger
- En svensk tiger
- Fagersta airspace surveillance tower
- Finlands sak är vår
- Foreign support of Finland in the Winter War
- Franco-British plans for intervention in the Winter War
- Hårsfjärden disaster
- If the war comes
- International Group of Democratic Socialists
- Internment camps in Sweden during World War II
- Kvarstad vessels
- Midsummer crisis
- Nordische Gesellschaft
- Norges-Nytt
- Norwegian police troops in Sweden during World War II
- Operation Rubble
- Operation Weserübung's effects on Sweden
- Psilander affair
- Radio Königsberg
- Rescue of the Danish Jews
- SS Hansa (1899)
- Samfundet Nordens Frihet
- Skåne Line
- Soviet bombing of Stockholm and Strängnäs in 1944
- Sweden and the Winter War
- Sweden during World War II
- Swedish Compulsory National Service Act
- Swedish humanitarian aid to Norway during World War II
- Swedish intervention in the Winter War
- Swedish iron-ore industry during World War II
- Swedish overseas trade during World War II
- Timeline of Sweden during World War II
- Transit of German troops through Finland and Sweden
- White Buses